Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Current Affairs
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Thoreau, Angst, Ennui, and Coming of Age
Resist unnecessary conformity; seize opportunity; pursue your dreams; heed the distant drummer; live your own life.
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Innovation Imperiled: Golden Eggs No More
We now risk killing the very thing that has given the U.S. an enormous national security and economic advantage
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The Epistemology of Science
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key to science.
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The Utility of Uselessness: Freeing Minds
Abraham Flexner: A poem, a symphony, a painting, a mathematical truth, a new scientific fact, all bear in themselves all the justification that universities, colleges, and institutes of research need or require.
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Nature Cannot Be Fooled
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
